Monday, July 4, 2011Faith Peppers
Special to Poultry Times
ATHENS, Ga. -- A team of researchers from the University of Georgia and the USDA is working to develop a new technology to breed chickens resistant to Newcastle virus.
"Disease and death in livestock is a serious problem, particularly in underdeveloped countries," said Georgia Research Alliance eminent scholar Steve Stice, an animal and dairy professor with the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
In sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, there are more than 17 billion chickens, and 90 percent of smallholder farmers raise chickens. Poultry is an important source of. . .
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